Example sentences of "been a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clairmonte was a popular choice for the title first won by John Carl Grimek , America 's ‘ Monarch of Muscledom ’ back in 1948 , but his victory had been a close run thing . |
| 2 | Lonrho 's chief executive , Mr Tiny Rowland , had once been a close business associate of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed , and the sulphurous mood at Lonrho partly reflected a falling out of old sparring partners . |
| 3 | I think he 's a right lying git , I could n't , he 's been a right lying git , he 's been saying all the things that he 's supposed to say instead of the truth |
| 4 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 5 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 6 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 7 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 8 | Although there has been a radical management shake-up and there have been improvements in organisation and efficiency , the fundamental ethos of the NHS — provision of medical service free at the point of use — has remained unchanged . |
| 9 | When he testified , he had already been characterized as Batman , and Superman and , most frequently , Rambo ( but ‘ a Rambo with all his clothes on ’ , as The Spectator put it ) ; he had been a composite Clint Eastwood type , part-lonesome cowboy , part Dirty Harry ; he had been James Bond and James Dean , ‘ the rebel with a cause ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’ |
| 11 | Later the former Grandstand presenter said : ‘ It 's just been a normal family Sunday lunch . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's all right for you , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you ai n't never been a poor orphan girl . ’ |
| 13 | Your grandfather had been a Poor Law Guardian and sharpened his razor on a leather strap that was also for giving beltings . |
| 14 | THE Brownies ' Hallowe'en party had been a great success Carol had enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 15 | It 's funny they 've never been a great juice freak really |
| 16 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |
| 17 | Seeing the parachutes back in the air has been a great morale booster for the base . |
| 18 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 19 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
| 20 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 21 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 23 | He had never been a great wine drinker , but on every visit to the Mayfair Hotel in London ( which he used often ) he was presented with a complimentary bottle of wine . |
| 24 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 25 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 26 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 27 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 28 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 29 | It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget . |
| 30 | If the wage rate had fallen , say , by 10% and the total employment had increased , as a result , by 5% , there would still have been a net 5% loss in total labor income . |